Past Events

2015

January 29, 2015 – Dinner Meeting

January 30, 2015 – Genealogy Workshop – Radomir Bilash

February 25, 2015 – Taste of Ukraine – February 26, 2015

April 23, 2015 – Dinner Meeting –Victor Hetmanczuk, Canada-Ukraine Foundation

May 13, 2015 – Afternoon Speaker Series: A Roundtable Discussion with Prof. Basil Kalymon, Special Economic Adviser to the President of Ukraine

May 28, 2015 – Dinner Meeting & Scholarship Night: Speaker Orysia Tracz – Folk Medicine & Ukrainian Traditions

June 25, 2018 – Dinner Meeting & AGM: Award Recipients: Ed Stelmach, Oksana & Oleh Hnatiuk

October 29, 2015 – Dinner Meeting: Estate, Succession and Retirement Planning for Businesses and Individuals

November 26, 2015 – Tell Them We Are Starving: The 1933 Diaries of Gareth Jones – Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk

2016

January 21, 2016 – Dinner Meeting – Maximizing Your Social Media Presence: Sarah Lynne Copeland

February 25, 2016 – Wild Rose Brewery –Tour and Beer Tasting

March 31, 2016 – A Canadian’s experience training the AZOV Battalion to NATO standards, Oksana Kuzyshyn

April 23, 2016 – Fifth Annual Taste of Ukraine

May 26, 2016 – Dinner Meeting & Scholarship Night – Speaker: Bohdan Romaniuk

June 23, 2016 – AGM & Dinner Meeting

October 2, 2016 – Dinner Meeting: Darren Lemke – Enterpreneurship: The How’s and Why’s of Starting a Successful Business in Good Times and Bad.

November 16, 2016 – The Personal Side of Cyber Security – Phil Fodchuk, Suncor Energy

November 24, 2016 – Dinner Meeting: Vitaliy Milentyev: Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement; Ruslana Wrzesnewskyj: Award Recipient

December 4, 2016 – 20th Annual Festival of Carols

2017

January 12, 2017 – Ukrainian Opera with Lida (at Calgary Opera)

February 2, 2017 – Book Launch: Lubomyr Luciuk – A Canadian Hero: Cpl Filip Konowal

February 11, 2017 – Book Launch: Bohdan Kordan – No Free Man

February 23, 2017 – Dinner Meeting – Dr. Peter Neweduk – Stem Cells: Hype, Hope & Reality

March 23, 2017 – Dinner Meeting at Santorini Taverna

April 29, 2017 – Sixth Annual Taste of Ukraine

May 18, 2017 – Wine & Cheese Reception for Ukr. delegates of GeoConvention 2017

May 25, 2017 – Dinner Meeting & Scholarship & Vyshyvanka Night –Dr. Linda Dudar

June 28, 2017 – Dinner Meeting & AGM – Speaker: Victor Malarek

2010

January 28, 2010  – Best of the Internet: An Evening of Fun, Fascination, Entertainment and Humour

March 25, 2010 – Unlocking the Secrets of “The Matrix”: How to Protect Your Nest Egg (and Even Prosper) in the Golden Age of Central Banking, Market Manipulation and State-Engineered Bubbles – Bohdan Romaniuk

April 29, 2010 – Speaker: Andriy Hladyshevsky, Q.C., President, Shevchenko Foundation & Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient 2010

September 23, 2010 – Speaker: Marsha Skrypuch: Author of Stolen Child;  Lifetime Achievement Award – Joe Karapinka (Scholarship Night)

October 28, 2010 – Technical Analysis of the Markets for Beginners – Kerry Boyko

November 25, 2010 – Stone Mill – A Film About the Holodomor

2011

January 27, 2011 – The Best of the Internet: An Evening of Fun, Fascination, Entertainment and Humour

February 24, 2011 – Business Fair

March 31, 2011 – Appointment in Samarra: A Contrarian Discourse on How to Survive (and Profit from) the Coming Collapse of the Global Monetary System – Bohdan Romaniuk

April 28, 2011 – Current Events in Ukraine – Morgan Williams, President & CEO, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council

May 26, 2011 – A Semester in Lviv: From the Other Side of the Desk – Ihor Kruk, Alberta Teachers’ Association

June 23, 2011 – AGM, Speaker: Hon. Eugene Zowzdesky, MLA & 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient

July 23, 2011 – Third Annual Calgary/Edmonton UCPBA Golf Tournament (The Nursery Golf and Country Club near Lacombe, AB)

October 1, 2011 – Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra – Ukrainian Rhapsody: An Evening of Ukrainian Music –conceived and co-sponsored by UCPBA

September 18, 2011 – Calgary premiere of Genocide Revealed, film by Yurij Luhovy – co-sponsored by UCPBA

September 19, 2011 – Current Developments in Ukraine – Dr. Andrij Zhalko-Tytarenko, Institute of East-West Political Studies

October 27, 2011 – Film: Three Stories of Galicia – Olha Onyshko, producer in attendance

November 22, 2011 – The Holy See and the Holodomor – Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk

2012

January 26, 2012 – The Best of the Internet: An Evening of Fun, Fascination, Entertainment and Humour

February 23, 2012 – First Annual Taste of Ukraine – Gourmet Night

March 29, 2012 – ‘No Way Out’ – A Discourse on Energy, Money, Complexity Theory and the Fate of Empire:  Important Lessons for Citizens and Investors – Bohdan Romaniuk

May 31, 2012 – Quo Vadis, Ukraina – Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (Scholarship Night)

June 21, 2012 – AGM, Speaker: Peter Shostak, Artist & 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient

September 27, 2012 – A Proud Legacy: Celebrating 120 Years of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada – Roman Brytan, Broadcaster & Radomir Bilash, Historian

October 25, 2012 – Ukrainians and the Policy of Multiculturalism in Canada:  Origins, Impact and Legacy — Manoly Lupul, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta

November 22, 2012 – The Holodomor – Roman Serbyn, Historian

December 9, 2012 – Calgary Ukrainian Carol Festival – co-sponsored by UCPBA

2013

January 31, 2013 — The Calgary Real Estate Market — Halyna Skala Tataryn, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada

February 28, 2013 – Second Annual Taste of Ukraine – Gourmet Night

April 25, 2013 – Technology: Saviour or Servitude – Mario Manella

May 30, 2013–Avoiding the Keyser Söze Syndrome: Where to Invest Today for Extraordinary Future Gains – Bohdan Romaniuk

June 19, 2013 – AGM, Speaker: Paul Grod, President, UCC National & 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient; Vadym Prystaiko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada

October 24, 2013 – The Economics (and Politics) of the Oil Sands Business – Don Verdonck

November 21, 2013 – Recent Developments in Research on the Holodomor – Dr. Bohdan Klid, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

2014

January 30, 2014 – Stroke/TIA What is it? How to prevent it? What to do if it happens? – Dr. Andrew Demchuk

February 27, 2014 – Third Annual Taste of Ukraine – Gourmet Night

March 27, 2014 – Medical Entrepreneurship: Bridging Medicine and Business to Solve Global Health Challenges  – Anne Zalucky

April 24, 2014 –Today’s Investment Climate: What’s Hot and What’s Not in Canadian Capital Markets  – Roman Dubczak, CIBC World Markets

May 29, 2014 — The Media in Canada – Linda Olsen, Global TV (Scholarship Night)

June 26, 2014 – AGM; The Importance of Maintaining Ukrainian Community Media in Canada – Marco Levytsky, Journalist & 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient

October 30, 2014 – 2014: Changes Medical Mercy Canada Has Noticed in Ukraine – Dr. Myron Semkuley; 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients: Aka & Nestor Papish

November, 2014 – Ukraine in Crisis:  Moving Forward – Derek Fraser, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
Former Ambassador to Ukraine

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2000

January 27, 2000 – The Ukrainian Canadian Community: Our Roots, Our Times, Our Goals

February 24, 2000 – Adopting Children from Ukraine: The issues based on the personal experiences of a Calgary Couple – Walter Romaniuk, Wendy Robinson

March 30, 2000 – Education – Bold Ideas for our Children’s Future, Mark Hlady, MLA, Calgary Mountain View

April 27, 2000 – Calgary’s Future –  What can we Expect?, Alderman Dave Bronconnier

July 6, 2000 – Pre-Stampede Barbeque, COP

October 6, 2000 – Theatre – Ivanka Chews the Fat, Jo-Ann Waytowich (Lunchbox Theatre)

December 10, 2000 – Carol Festival – Koliada (St. Stephen’s)

 

2001

January 25, 2001 – The Olympic Experience – a family’s perspective – Terry & Alexandra Lys

March 8, 2001 – Derek Fraser, Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine

April 26, 2001 – Ukrainians in Quebec – Orest Slepokura

June 21, 2001 – Bi-Annual General Meeting (Symons Valley BBQ Ranch)

October 25, 2001 – Book Launch for Hope’s War – A novel dealing with the Denaturalizaion & Deportation of Ukrainian Canadians – by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

November 29, 2001 – Awards Night – Scholarships & Lifetime Achievement Awards

December 9, 2001 – Annual Carolfest (St. Vladimir’s)

 

2002

January 31, 2002 – Updating of Association’s Bylaws and Review of Donations Guidelines

Febuary 21, 2002 – Global Education – Grant MacEwan College in Ukraine – Dr. Roman Petryshyn, Director of the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre at Grant Macewan College in Edmonton

March 21, 2002 – Film Night (With Fire & Sword – a Sweeping saga of love & adventure during a war between Ukraine and Poland in the 17^th Century)

April 25, 2002 – Ukraine’s & Eastern Europe’e Business Climates: Reasons for Optimism – Leah Soroka, Project Manager, Business Development International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)

May 2002 – Dinner Meeting cancelled

June 20, 2002 – Annual Meeting & Social

Sept 19, 2002 – Awards Night: Pawluk Lifetime, Scholarships Ben Slusarchuk, Daria McDonald, Alexandra Lys; Speaker Lubomyr Luciuk

October 24, 2002 – Medical Mercy Canada – Dr. Myron & Mrs. Elaine Semkuley

November 21, 2002 – Lest We Forget, Mewata Armoury – Murray Copot

December 8, 2002 – Ukrainian Christmas Carol Festival (ABVM)

 

2003

January 23, 2003 – Investment Options in 2003 – Terry Lys & guest financial planner

February 20, 2003 – ‘My Mother’s Village’ – with producer George Melnyk & director John Paskievich

April 10, 2003 – Pysanka Passion (workshop) – Nadya Chornenky & Andriy Ilnycky

May 2, 2003 – Dr. Lawrence Mysak, Mcgill University – Scientific exchange with Ukraine and his travels there

June 19, 2003 – AGM & Kovbasa Contest

September 25, 2003 – Scholarships & Lifetime Achievement Awards Night; Lifetime: Jean Mekitiak, Speaker – Maria Lizak – Youth and Ukraiian Identity

October 23, 2003 – Wine & Cheese

November 13, 2003 – How Ukrainian Culture Has Influenced Popular Culture – Dr. Dennis Hlynka

December – Carol Festival

 

2004

March 2004 – Myrna Kostash re: Cooperative venture with U of C

April 25, 2004 – Stalin/Hitler video

May 27, 2004 – AGM & Election (President elected – David Repetowsky)

June 4, 2004 – Fish Fry & Lobster Boil

1995

April 29, 1995 – Presidents’ Spring Ball ‘Night of The Kozaks’ (have invite digi)

September 18, 1995 – AGM &  Biennial Elections, Speaker – Raya Shadurka, UCPBF President – (President elected – Oksana Hnatiuk)

October 26, 1995 – Medical Care and Laboratory Practice in Ukraine, 1995 – Dr. Allan Oryschak, Pathologist

November 23, 1995 – Joint Venture Projects in Ukraine, Representiatve of Sabrama International Management Ltd.

December 14, 1995 – Festive Evening/Веселий Вечір

 

1996

January 25, 1996 – Truth and Trust in Investigative Reporting – Donna Korchinski, Freelance Investigative Journalist

February 22, 1996 – ‘Meet the Artists’ Evening

March 21, 1996 – Lawrence Mysak, President of the Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada

April 25, 1996 – Chornobyl – 10 Years After – Dr. David R. Marples, CIUS, University of Alberta

May 4, 1996 – Presidents’ Spring Ball, 400 Club – ‘Золотий Київ’ (have invite digi) (First Honorary Life Membership Award Winner: Murray Copot)

June 14, 1996 – Wind-up Golf Party

September 25, 1996 – Annual General Meeting with special guest speaker re Media Image and Promotion

October 30, 1996 – Iconography – Anton Yavny, Iconographer, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukr. Cath Church

November 27, 1996 – Medical Genetics Post Chornobyl – Dr. Ross McLeod, Pediatric, Geneticist, Alberta Children’s Hospital

December 8, 1996 – Ukrainian Carol Festival

 

1997

January 30, 1997 – The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 20 Years of Activity – Dr. Zenon, Kohut, Director

February 27, 1997 – Oil and Gas Opportunities in Ukraine since President Kuchma’s Election – Edward M. Southern, UK-Ran Oil Corp, Zhoda Corp, Kashtan Petroleum Ltd.

March 27, 1997 – Networking – Ukrainian Style

April 24, 1997 – Oil and Gas Opportunities in the Crimea, Ukraine – Ronald K. Cormick, CEO & President, Epic Energy Inc.

May 3, 1997 – Presidents’ Spring Ball – ‘Зачарований Вечір’ 400 Club

June 19, 1997 – Beer on the Bow – Speaker, Michael Tymchuk, President, Wild Rose Brewery

September 25, 1997 – AGM & Bienniel Elections

October 23, 1997 – Financial Planning, Gilles Begin, Planvest Pacific Financial Corporation

November 20, 1997 – The Status of Medical Education in Kiev, Dr. Peter Harasym PhD, U of C Office of Medical Education & Dept of Community Health Sciences

 

 

1998

January 29, 1998 – Adventures in Journalism: Why I Write As I Do – Paul Jackson, Assoc. Editor, Calgary Sun

February 26, 1998 – Investing in Ukraine: What is it Really Like? – Oleh Hnatiuk, President, Connect Capital Corp.

March 26, 1998 – Year 2000 Computer Issues: What you should be ‘A Feared’ Of’! – Dr. Ronald George, President & CEO, Perigon Solutions

April 20, 1998 – UCPBF Western Executive/Presidents Meeting

April 30, 1998 – The Power of One, Diane Jones onihowski, VP Marketing & Manager of National Sport Centre

May 30, 1998 A Ukrainian Wedding – St. Stephens

June 17, 1998 – Year End Wrap-Up (Earl Grey Golf Course)

September 18, 1998 – Lunch with Olexandr Kurdydyk, Electron Bank & Boris Balan, Ukraine Enterprise Corp.

September 24, 1998 – An Evening of Celebration: Honoring our Award Recipients

October 29, 1998 Canadian Medical Air to Ukrainian Village – Dr. M. & Mrs. Elaine Semkuley

November 19, 1998 The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33, A Reassessment, Dr. David Marples, University of Alberta

December 11, 1998 – Tour of Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church by Anton Yavny, iconographer

 

 

1999

January 28, 1999 – Kalyna Country: EcoMuseum, An Exercise in Community Building,  Jars Balan

February 25, 1999 – Doing Business in Ukraine: The Promise and the Peril – A Panel Discussion – Terry Roberts, Executive Director, Canada-Ukraine Business Initiative (CUBI), Ed Southern, Chairman & CEO of Nadra Resources, Paul Drager, Managing Partner, MacLeod Dixon, Anthony Ashiotis, Anthony Ashiotis & Co.

March 25, 1999 – Internet and High Speed Internet for Successful Business Marketing – Geoff Connerton, Shaw Cable Systems

April 29, 1999 – Denaturalization, Deportation and Defamation in ‘war crimes Trials: The corruption of Canada’s Justice System and the Rewriting of History – Eugene Harasymiw

May 14, 1999 – Dinner with the Ambassador, His Excellency Volodymyr Khandogiy, Ukr ambassador to Canada (w CUBI Chamber)

May 27, 1999 – Investment in Eastern Europe – panel discussion Linda Niro, Chris Larcorque, Rick Badget (w CUBI Chamber)

June 24, 1999 – AGM & Welcome the Summer

September 30, 1999 – Lifetime Honorary Member Award & Student Scholarships (Lydia Hladyshevsky; Melanie Hnatiuk & Sergiy Polovy)

October 28, 1999 – What’s Hot: Internment, War Crimes & Genocide – the Ukrainian Canadian position on these issues – Borys Sydoruk

December 15, 1999 – Doing Business in Central Europe, Poland and Ukraine

1990

June 26, 1990 – Speaker Valentina Smirnova, Robitnycha Gazeta & Calgary Herald

September 27, 1990 – Doing Business in Ukraine  Ted Mitenko, On Management Team of Alta Genetics Inc, a company that exports cattle and embryos to the Eastern Block

 

1991

January 31, 1991 – Ray Martin, Leader, Alberta New Democrats

February 28, 1991  – June Kirk, Environmentalist – Calgarian of the Year

March 28, 1991 – Diana Ablonczy, Chairman, Reform Party of Canada

Apr 23, 1991 – Beans & Beer with Ollie Williams of Dartmouth

May 4, 1991 – Presidents’ Spring Ball

May 23, 1991 – Laurence Decore?

June 21, 1991 – Family picnic & Barbecue at Margaret Brodylo’s farm

Sept 91 – Eugene Zwozdesky, musician, Exec Dir AB Ukr Can Centennial Cttee

September 24, 1991  – Season Opener, Pot Luck

October 4 – 6, 1991 – Art Show ‘Expressions of Freedom’ (UCPBA & Sofia Skrypnyk; ABVM)

October 16, 1991 – For Our Children – Peter Shostak

November 29, 1991 – Lesia Sachkiw – Ukrainian Christmas Traditions

 

1992

January 4, 1992 – Ukrainian Christmas at the Museum (Glenbow)

March 26, 1992 – AGM

Apr 10 – 11, 1992 – National Federation Regional Meeting

May 2, 1992 – Presidents’ Spring Ball

May 26, 1992  – National Federation Regional Mtg & Calgary Business Mtg

May 28, 1992 – The Spring Cycle – Lesia Sachkiw

June 25, 1992 – Wally Rusel, Director, Ukrainian Genealogical & Historical Society

July 26, 1992 – picnic at Margaret Brodylo’s Farm

September 24, 1992 – Season Opener, Pot Luck

November 2, 1992  – Reception for Figure Skater Victor Petrenko

November 26, 1992 – Will Democracy Exist in Ukraine? – Dr. Bohdan Harasymiw, Dept. of History Political Science, U of C

 

1993

January 28, 1993 – The Benefits of North American Free Trade Agreement – Douglas Neil, Alberta Economic Development and Tourism

June 18, 1993 – Presidents’ Spring Ball, 400 Club

 

1994

June 18, 1994 – Presidents’ Ball – Night of Kupalo

October 27, 1994 – The Problematic Future of Public Education – Andrew Nikiforuk, Journalist & Author

November 24, 1994 – Mission to Ukraine: Observations from their recent trip to administer humanitarian aid to Ukraine – Michael Fisher, Calgary Sun & Evelyn Lavery, Canadian Red Cross Society

1985

February 5, 1985 – AGM

March 27, 1985 – Dinner Mtg in the Courtyard – no details

June 12, 1985 – Bilingualism in the Alberta School System, as Relating to the Ukrainian Language – William Pidruchney, Chairman, Alberta Securities Commission

 

1988

June 22, 1988 – Speaker Judge Albert Ludwig

February 10, 1989 – Business Meeting &  Presentation of Volume II of Encyclopedia of Ukraine – Bohdan Krawchenko, CIUS

 

1989

April 12, 1989 – topic?

May 6, 1989 – Fashion Show and Dance ‘Spring Fling’

September 30, 1989 – Fun Tournament, Turner Valley Golf Course

July 9, 1090 – Stampede Family Picnic – Ball Game & Other Games – Lozinski Acreage in Springbank

June 17, 1989 – Cannons Ball Game

June 7, 1989 – Business Meeting & Wine & Cheese

October 26, 1989 – Business Meeting & Ukrainian Buffet

November 25, 1989 – Business Meeting, Tryzub Dance Performance, dinner with Tryzub Dancers

1979

Jul 8, 1979 – Annual Famous Stampede Barbecue (John Sadownick’s cabin at Chestermere Lake

 

1981

Mar 4, 1981 – Human Values in the Work Force – Fred Elford, Manager of Organizational Effectiveness

May 6, 1981 – Speaker Al Sulatycky

May 23, 1981 – Bowling, Family Evening Program

June 3, 1981 – Immigrant Settlements in Western Canada – Grant MacEwan

July 5, 1981 – Stampede Barbecue

October 3, 1981 – Harvest Ball (St. Vlads)

 

1982

Feb 3, 1982 – AGM

November 3, 1982 – Twentieth Century Ukrainian Art – Slides & Commentary by Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij

February 2, 1983 – AGM

February 12, 1983 – Valentine’s Ball (ABVM)

March 2, 1983 – Taxation in Canada – an official of Revenue Canada

April 6, 1983 – The Quality of Calgary Education – Ann Blough, Trustee, Calgary Board of Education

May 4, 1983 – Tom Kennedy, on of the ‘hit’ speakers of the past, on a subject of current interest

June 8, 1983 – Rabbi Lewis N. Ginsberg

July 10, 1983 – Stampede Bar-B-Que – Sadownick cottage at Chestermere Lake

September 7, 1983 – ‘Laughter in my Soul’ (film by Halya Kuchmij)

October 5, 1983 – Mr. Rod Sykes, politician and former mayor of Calgary

November 7, 1983 – The Years of the Hungry Horse  the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 (movie & presentation by Marco Carynnyk)

 

1984

February 8, 1984 – Announcement of Plans for upcoming year

March 7, 1984 – How to Invest Your Money

April 7 – 8, 1984 – Art Show (Peter Shostak, Ludmila, Temistocle Wirsta, Maria Styranka, Wassyl Krychevky, Kateryna Krychevska-Rosandych, Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn, Christina Kowalsky

June 6, 1984 – Hon. Julian G. J. Koziak, Minister of Municipal Affiars

October 29, 1984 – The White Paper – Brian Lee, MLA

December 3, 1984 – ‘The Sloan Affair’ (NFB Film), Michael Lozinski, Tax Consultant